{"id":339528,"date":"2024-08-14T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339528"},"modified":"2024-08-14T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T05:26:13","slug":"fatal-polar-bear-attack-in-davis-strait-last-week-important-details-being-withheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339528","title":{"rendered":"Fatal polar bear attack in Davis Strait last week: important details being withheld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From polarbearscience<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man was\u00a0killed last week<\/a>\u00a0(August 8) by two polar bears on a small island off the east coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut, multiple reports have confirmed \u2014 although\u00a0precious few details<\/a>\u00a0have been provided, other than that one of the bears was killed immediately afterward. The name of the victim (an employee of a government radar site) has not been released, and no information on the condition of the bears or the circumstances of the attack have been provided. Major news outlets have had to\u00a0pad their stories<\/a>\u00a0with details from previous attacks and\u00a0other filler<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Svalbard sow and half-grown male cub that\u2019s as big as she is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, an attack by two bears sounds suspiciously like the sow and half-grown cub<\/a> involved in another fatal attack in 2018 <\/a>in Foxe Basin, even though adult females with cubs are one of the least common perpetrators of serious attacks on people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are officials not saying if this was yet another fatal assault by an adult female with a cub, even five days after the attack<\/a>? Perhaps because they think it makes the bears \u201clook bad\u201d and strengthens the Nunavut case for recently including equal numbers of females and males in their hunting quotas<\/a>? Time will tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brevoort Island, Davis Strait (Nunavut)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sea ice conditions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No ice last week off southeastern Baffin Island:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, there was still sea ice offshore in this region as recently as the first week of July (see below), so bears haven\u2019t been onshore for more than a few weeks. Most bears are in their best condition of the year in early summer after feeding extensively on young seals in the spring: a\u00a0starving bear<\/a>\u00a0is unlikely to be involved under these circumstances, although we\u2019ll have to wait until more details are released (which experience suggests will take months).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A man was\u00a0killed last week\u00a0(August 8) by two polar bears on a small island off the east coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut, multiple reports have confirmed \u2014 although\u00a0precious few details\u00a0have been provided, other than that one of the bears was killed immediately afterward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":339536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691830136,691818251,691830137],"class_list":{"0":"post-339528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-baffin-island-in-nunavut","9":"tag-polar-bears","10":"tag-sea-ice-offshore","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/07567797a-10ef-4939-9b3f-818ad7f357fa.jpg?fit=2000%2C1351&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1qkg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":340037,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340037","url_meta":{"origin":339528,"position":0},"title":"No, BBC, Polar Bears Are Not In\u00a0Decline","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"19\/08\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Two polar bears killed a worker at a remote Arctic radar station in Canada\u2019s northern Nunavut territory, prompting an investigation into the rare fatal attack.","rel":"","context":"In \"Arctic radar station\"","block_context":{"text":"Arctic radar station","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=arctic-radar-station"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0polar-bear-iceberg-portrait.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0polar-bear-iceberg-portrait.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0polar-bear-iceberg-portrait.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0polar-bear-iceberg-portrait.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0polar-bear-iceberg-portrait.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":270551,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=270551","url_meta":{"origin":339528,"position":1},"title":"Repeat of 2013 high-profile Sierra Club polar bear attack, this time with Inuit victims","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"31\/07\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost 10 years later to the day, another polar bear attack resulting in serious injury has taken place in the northern Labrador\/Quebec region of Eastern Canada. 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